Events
Events
Living Writers Series: Andrew Sean Greer
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAndrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel,” and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, […]
Rajesh Bhatt: “Locating Agreement in Grammar”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Linguistics Colloquium Series Presents: Rajesh Bhatt (UMass Amherst) The location of agreement in the grammar has been the topic of considerable recent discussion. Bobaljik 2008 has argued that agreement […]
Gianfranco Norelli and Surma Kurien: “Pane Amaro”
Cowell, Room 131 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesItalian Studies Program, Language Program, American Studies Program and History Department Present a screening of the 2009 documentary film, Pane Amaro (Bitter Bread) dir. Gianfranco Norelli Followed by a conversation with […]
Patricia Clough: “War by Other Means: What Difference Do(es) the Graphic(s) Make?”
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPatricia T. Clough is a Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection: […]
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for Labor Studies presents: Bill Fletcher, Jr.: "Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor" Free and Open to the Public Right-wing populism is a phenomenon deeply […]
Joy Harjo: “Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears”
Merrill Event Center Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st, 2011, at Merrill College Event Center, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a […]
Harry Berger, Jr.: “Caterpillage: Small-scale Violence in 17th Century Dutch Still-Life Painting”
Merrill Event Center Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is about the strange accent on disorder in 17th century Dutch paintings of still life. The still-life genre includes pictures of flowers and food in domestic and outdoor […]
Bettina Aptheker: “The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright, 1920s-1930s”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and the […]
The Writing Program’s Reading Series
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: Chuck Atkinson, Jeff Arnett, Roxi Power Hamilton, Ingrid Moody, Robin Sommers, and Stephen […]
Paul Horwich: “Wittgenstein’s Meta-Philosophy”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMy aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein's anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way, how it should instead be done, […]
